Germany – Wadden Sea Shrimp

Port entrance of Hallig Hooge (c) Kai Watjen
(c) Kai Watjen
shrimptrawlers

Climate change effect on the inshore and Wadden Sea brown shrimp fishery

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Aim

To increase knowledge of shrimp population dynamics and its relative importance for ecosystem functioning; to involve local fishermen in a sustainable and transparent management plan; to investigate disease ecology of C. crangon (black spot disease); to create a species inventory of the Wadden Sea system; to create a user-friendly open-access database, which integrates the obtained ecological information of the Wadden Sea system.

Stakeholder Participants

  • Cooperative of Neuharlingersiel and Association of small deep-sea and inshore fisheries within the national fishery association Weser-Ems e. V, Lower-Saxony

Regional Advisory Council

German